With the biggest horse racing jumps fixture on the horizon many fans will want reminding just how many Cheltenham Festival races there are each day ahead of the 2024 meeting.
There Are SEVEN Cheltenham Festival Races Each Day
The Cheltenham Festival has SEVEN races each day, spread over the four day meeting.
To help horse racing fans the race times each day are the same, with the first race at 1:30pm and the last at 5:30pm
Across the meeting there is a headline race each day, with the Champion Hurdle on Tuesday, the Champion Chase on Wednesday, the Stayers’ Hurdle and Ryanair Chase on Thursday, with the action then climaxing with the Cheltenham Gold Cup on the Friday.
In Total There Are 28 Cheltenham Festival Races
With seven races each day over the four day Cheltenham Festival meeting, then the mathmaticians out there would have quickly worked out there’s a total of 28 races.
These 28 Cheltenham races are split into 13 hurdles races, 14 chase races and the NH Flat Champion Bumper.
You can also see which are the longest and shortest Cheltenham Festival races here.
When Is The Cheltenham Festival 2024?
2024 Cheltenham Festival Date
- Tuesday 12th March 2024: Champion Day
- Wednesday 13th March 2024: Style Wednesday
- Thursday 14th March 2024: St Patrick’s Day
- Friday 15th March 2024: Gold Cup Day
Cheltenham Festival 2024 Info
📅Date: Tuesday 12th- Friday 15th March 2024
🕙Time: First Race 1:30pm, Last Race 5:30pm each day
🏇Racecourse: Cheltenham
📺 TV: Racing TV / ITV
The Cheltenham Festival Was Moved To Four Days In 2005
The Cheltenham Festival has not alway been held over four days though and, therefore, hasn’t always had 28 races attached to it.
Up until 2005, the Festival was staged over three days, with the action running over Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
The Friday was added in 2005 and that become the new home for the Cheltenham Gold Cup. While to make sure each of the new four days would have six races each back then, five new races were formed.
Plus, since then another four races were introduced – including the Mares’ Novices’ Hurdle and the Mares’ Chase – which is were the 28 tally stands at today (7 races per day)
Cheltenham Festival Race Times 2024
See below the times, race names and running order, plus you can also relive the results and finishes from all the 28 Cheltenham Festival races in 2023.
Tuesday 12th March 2024
- 1.30: Supreme Novices’ Hurdle
- 2.10: Arkle Novices’ Chase
- 2.50: Ultima Handicap Chase
- 3.30: Champion Hurdle
- 4.10: Mares’ Hurdle
- 4.50: Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle
- 5.30: National Hunt Chase
Wednesday 13th March 2024
- 1.30: Ballymore Novices’ Hurdle (looking for a new sponsor)
- 2.10: Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase
- 2.50: Coral Cup (Handicap Hurdle)
- 3.30: Queen Mother Champion Chase
- 4.10: Glenfarclas Cross Country Chase
- 4.50: Grand Annual Handicap Chase
- 5.30: Champion Bumper
Thursday 14th March 2024
- 1.30: Turners Novices’ Chase
- 2.10: Pertemps Final Handicap Hurdle
- 2.50: Ryanair Chase
- 3.30: Stayers’ Hurdle
- 4.10: Paddy Power Plate (Handicap Chase)
- 4.50: Mares Novices’ Hurdle
- 5.30: Fulke Walwyn Kim Muir Challenge Cup (Handicap Chase)
Friday 15th March 2024
- 1.30: Triumph Hurdle
- 2.10: County Hurdle (Handicap)
- 2.50: Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle
- 3.30: Cheltenham Gold Cup
- 4.10: Foxhunters Chase
- 4.50: Mares’ Chase
- 5.30: Martin Pipe Handicap Hurdle
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